[The organization of specialized medical care for the army in the field]

The experience of combat actions, and especially of the wars in century XX proves that specialized medical care occupies an important place in the system of medical and evacuation support. Some elements of the specialized medical care have been originated even during the wars of centuries XVIII-XIX, but they had appeared under the influence of current situation and by the initiative of non-government organizations or single persons. Specialized medical care have obtained strict organizational forms, and was formatted as scientifically developed system only during the years of the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945. The basic trends in its development were: the appearance of different types of specialized medical care and formation of specialized medical establishments (sections) on the basis of Army or Front hospital facilities (AHF & FHF). There were certain differences in AHF and FHF specialized medical care. Specialization in AHF was realized by temporal attachment of specialized groups form of a separate company of medical re-enforcement; as for FHF, medical specialists were assigned to the staff of military hospitals.